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They have them around here, but they are like $15 bucks a culture! Is that normal?

Yeah, i miss it already, but i am getting some ooths soon, so i will have some replacements:) I can also go out and harves some chinese ooths from outside too:)

How do i get such small creatures in and out for feeding?

Oh, i can just drop mangos or bananas in a jar outside to start cultures right?

Me or Rick? Mine was T. sinesis, the Chinese mantid.

Hey all, i'm getting 2 budwing ooths in a week or two and was wondering what i'm gonna do with all the babies! I should end up with around 40-120 and it's my first time with mantids in general(besides the chinese, who sadly died this morning). Can anyone give me suggestions on how to care for...

Thats something i'll never do again.

Yeah, to tell you the truth, it's kinda depressing, if i could just keep my @$$ awake during this kinda stuff, i feel so bad, like it's my fault. I actually have her in an Exo-terra mesh Explorarium(expensive, just 18"x12" was $36.50 USD!), i'm pretty sure she had enough to grip, but i feel bad...

She's gone, i euthanized her, i noticed some of her legs were splayed too, and the ooz was also in her exoskeleton, it was a green liquid that dried up after a while, i removed it from her eyes, to reveal an unhardened surface under it, and from some of the tips of her legs. And her wings were...

You meant basically euthanize her?

Well, i checked her out again, she has this green liquid that dried up on the tips of her feet so her calws are "clogged" up, she can't really hang on anything, this stuff was also on her eyes(i removed it) and her properly formed front leg(also removed). She is still active, and moving around...

Nice pictures, i like the first mantid, and the flower mantid too:) By the way, how do you get the black background on the photos?

I have some good news, and some bad... Good news is, it made it out of it's old exoskeleton, but the bad news, it fell 18" as a soft squishy lump in the middle of the night, it's still alive, but it can't fully lift itself, yet, it's wings aren't strait against it's body, they are all floppy and...

Oh, ok:) It really hasn't been moving and active like it ussualy is, so i guess it's been waiting for this important night:)

Actually, it's a nymph and, and i think it's shedding right now. It started to move it's abdomen up against it's body as if it was trying to "burst" the outer skin off. Is it shedding?

I caught him outside on Sunday night, and he has still only eaten half a cricket.

Ok:) I have a bunch of moss, i'll definetly try it, but i noticed he drank a lot when i heavily misted the cage this morning, could it have been he was dehydrated? Over here in Maryland it is REALLY hot right now, and VERY dry. So after that i went out to my neigbors lil garden and happend to...

Well, i already have hissers, so my moms cool with roaches, so maybe i'll get a colony going soon. About the prolific stuff, i really don't have to much to feed so anything thats breeds relativly fast is fine:) Plus, they look pretty cool too.

Have you tried them, just wondering:)

Hey, i am have one chinese mantid right now and was wondering if anyone here fed bannana roaches. I don't think it would work if you use substrate because although they are excellent at flight, they are burrowing roaches. Anyways i was thinking since they fly the mantids might be more entised to...